Well, the good news is, you're backing up really fast! Do you have a dbbackup trigger defined? You can set that up so that when your log hits a threshold (since you know it's filling fast, say 50% full), TSM automatically fires a DB incremental backup.
You could have the incremental go to tape if your tape is fast, or to disk if you want it faster. When the incremental finishes, TSM SHOULD clear the log. That might take care of your problem, if that client is backing up many small files and doesn't keep the log pinned. If the client keeps the log pinned, it won't help. But it's harmless to try. (BTW, if you increased your log yesterday, don't forget to DECREASE it today back to where it was - DON"T let it get to that 5.4 GB limit. If the log DOES fill again, you need to be able to add a bit of space to get the server back up.) -----Original Message----- From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recovery log and ckpt Hi all Firstly let me thank those who helped me out last night getting my server back up after the recovery log filled.....much better than IBM support...! I have found the culprit that caused the log to fill. It seems that when the incremental backups are running for a win2k cluster the log gets written to at approx 2.2Gb an hour. The incremental didn't even backup that much data, in terms of size but I guess there must have been loads of small files in there. The problem I have now is, how can I back up this cluster if it is going to fill the recovery log everytime. The log is 5196 Mb so cannot grow much bigger, alas we're on 4.1.5 Server and yes I've made management aware that we need to upgrade to take advantage of the new recovery log size features. Looking back through adsm.org people have mentioned the ckpt command. Does anyone know how well this works in rollforward mode?? Many Thanks again Chris _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
